Teach, Don't Preach: New Website Launched
02/01/2011

Teach, Don't Preach: New Website Launched

Atheist Ireland has launched a new website as part of our campaign for a secular Irish education system based on human rights law. http://teachdontpreach.ie includes information, resources and a discussion forum about secular education, and sample letters to help you to opt your child out of religious education classes in ...

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Give us a state that's not religious nor atheist, but secular
19/10/2010

Give us a state that's not religious nor atheist, but secular

Here is an article I wrote for today's Irish Times. Give us a state that's not religious nor atheist, but secular ATHEISM PROVIDES a better model of reality, and a better basis for morality, than believing in gods. Atheists can enjoy the benefits that many people get from religion, without ...

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Give us a state that’s not religious nor atheist, but secular
19/10/2010

Give us a state that’s not religious nor atheist, but secular

Here is an article I wrote for today's Irish Times. Give us a state that's not religious nor atheist, but secular ATHEISM PROVIDES a better model of reality, and a better basis for morality, than believing in gods. Atheists can enjoy the benefits that many people get from religion, without ...

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Atheist Ireland meets European Union Presidents to discuss poverty policy
15/10/2010

Atheist Ireland meets European Union Presidents to discuss poverty policy

Today in Brussels Atheist Ireland became the first Irish philosophical organisation, and the first European atheist advocacy group, to meet with the Presidents of the European Commission, European Parliament and European Council. The meeting discussed European Union policy on poverty and social exclusion, as part of the dialogue process under ...

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Atheist Ireland calls for change to Education Bill
13/10/2010

Atheist Ireland calls for change to Education Bill

Atheist Ireland wants a change to the Education (Amendment) Bill 2010, which is being debated this week in the Dail, to ensure the right of parents to a secular education based on human rights law in new VEC primary schools. The Bill will allow VECs to become patrons of new ...

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Creationist book and Science Minister versus facts
05/10/2010

Creationist book and Science Minister versus facts

With Science Minister Conor Lenihan winning our September Really Truly True Believer of the Month Award for planning to launch an anti-evolution book by creationist John J. May, here are two excellent videos by Shane Owen that will confuse both the Minister and the author with, what do you call ...

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Atheist Alliance International votes to expand into two organisations
01/10/2010

Atheist Alliance International votes to expand into two organisations

Atheist Alliance International has agreed, by an 80% vote margin, to expand into two separate organisations. One will conduct atheist advocacy at a national level within the USA, and one will conduct atheist advocacy at an international level while supporting national groups throughout the world. Up to now, AAI has ...

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Conor McGrath elected Vice President of Atheist Alliance International
01/10/2010

Conor McGrath elected Vice President of Atheist Alliance International

Conor McGrath of Atheist Ireland has been elected as Vice President of Atheist Alliance International. The four new officers elected today are: President: Nick Lee - Freethinkers Association of Central Texas (Texas, USA). Nick is the co-founder and Vice President of Texas Freethought Convention, now in its third year of ...

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Pope links atheism with Nazi Germany and lack of virtue
16/09/2010

Pope links atheism with Nazi Germany and lack of virtue

The Pope makes two scandalous comments in his opening speech in Britain: firstly, his attempt to blame atheism for the crimes of Nazi Germany, and secondly his inference that, if you do not want God or religion in public life, you also do not want virtue in public life. On ...

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Science Minister Lenihan to launch book calling evolution a hoax
13/09/2010

Science Minister Lenihan to launch book calling evolution a hoax

Update: Irish Science Minister Lenihan withdraws from launching anti-evolution book http://bit.ly/atOXec Conor Lenihan, Ireland's Minister of State for Science, is to launch a book this Wednesday that describes evolution as a scientific hoax. He says he is doing this because the author is a friend of his. This is an ...

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